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enGreg Dennis: Antidotes for the daily Trump-acheshttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201807greg-dennis-antidotes-daily-trump-aches
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In almost every conversation with friends these days, there comes a time when we have to decide the same question: Are we going to talk about Trump?</p>
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The man&rsquo;s actions are so outrageous that they sometimes demand a response. So we spend a few minutes fulminating about the latest outrage &mdash; Trump&rsquo;s alienating allies we need in a dangerous world; bailing out of the Paris agreement to combat climate change; lying about even the most obvious facts.</p>
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With the tourist season upon us, thousands of flatlanders are in the process of invading Vermont. It would be nice if they returned home from their vacations with an understanding of Vermont history that extends beyond Ethan Allen furniture. So, I offer the following tongue-in-cheek guide to local spots of historical significance.</p>
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<em>I&rsquo;m going up the country, babe, don&rsquo;t you wanna go?</em></p>
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<em>I&rsquo;m going to some place where I&rsquo;ve never been before.</em></p>
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<em>I&rsquo;m going where the water tastes like wine.</em></p>
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<em>We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time.</em></p>
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<em>&mdash; &ldquo;Going Up the Country,&rdquo; written by Alan Wilson and made famous by Canned Heat</em></p>
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<em>1968, it has that ring</em></p>
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<em>Of RFK and Martin Luther King</em></p>
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<em>Where the dream went down on a hotel floor</em></p>
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<em>Dreams are what we&rsquo;re living for</em></p>
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<em>&mdash; John Stewart, &ldquo;Irresistible Targets&rdquo;</em></p>
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Has my generation of Baby Boomers screwed all the ones that came after us?</p>
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Steven Brill thinks so. And he&rsquo;s at least partly right.</p>
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Brill, an attorney, journalist and entrepreneur, had a role in glamorizing the big money created by Baby Boomers. He founded the <em>American Lawyer</em>, a magazine that documented the astounding rise to riches of the legal profession.</p>
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Now he&rsquo;s repenting.</p>
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Since the late 1970s, lawyers have gotten fat off the financial, technology, healthcare and other booming sectors they so adroitly service.</p>
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This is the time of year when skiers tell their non-skiing friends that they&rsquo;ve just been on the slopes &mdash; and their friends respond with quizzical, slightly depressed looks.</p>
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&ldquo;Oh, are they <em>still</em> skiing?&rdquo; someone will ask, incredulous, as if that should be confined to the Himalayas.</p>
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Yes, a few of us possessed people are still skiing.</p>
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If you believe, as many of us do, that climate change means our children will live in a more dangerous and chaotic world, then at some point you&rsquo;ve got to look in the mirror and wonder about the car you&rsquo;re driving.</p>
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Transportation accounts for Vermont&rsquo;s greatest contribution to climate change. Carbon pollution from cars and (especially) trucks means that for every historically destructive hurricane &mdash; think Puerto Rico &mdash; every driver is driving those storms to be a little bigger.</p>
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MIDDLEBURY AIRPORT, April 1, 2018 &mdash; Here&rsquo;s a lightly edited transcript of my recent conversation with President Donald Trump.</p>
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GD: Thanks for stopping on the Middlebury airport tarmac for an interview today.</p>
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DT: Of course. It&rsquo;s great to be back in New Hampshire. &ldquo;Live free or die&rdquo; and all that.</p>
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GD: Actually, sir, you&rsquo;re in Vermont.</p>
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DT: Great place, Vermont. I won the primary here by the biggest margin anyone has ever won an election. (1)</p>
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School budgets and climate change will be among questions before Addison County voters next week.</p>
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In Cornwall, Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton and 32 other towns, voters will be asked to approve a resolution calling for an end to new fossil fuel infrastructure throughout Vermont.</p>
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In a season of giving and getting presents, most of us are looking forward to what&rsquo;s going to be under the Christmas tree this coming Monday. The days are ripe with anticipation of gifts from Santa Claus and his elves.</p>
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But what if I told you that Santa had already arrived and has been giving out presents all year?</p>
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Bear with me for a moment as we look back 120 years, to the Sept. 21, 1897, edition of <em>The New York Sun</em>. On that day in <em>The Sun</em> there appeared a letter to the editor and the editor&rsquo;s response.</p>
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Dan and I met during a draft counseling session at Middlebury College. We were both freshmen &mdash; first-year pups &mdash; and at that point he hadn&rsquo;t even turned 18.</p>
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As with every young American man of that time, we were facing the prospect of being drafted and sent off to kill people. Individuals and families whom we had never met and who lived thousands of miles away on the other side of the planet.</p>
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Stephen Stills and Judy Collins were always an unlikely couple.&nbsp;<img alt="" src="/files/images/Dennis, Greg ONLINE(2).jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 301px; float: right; margin: 6px;" /></p>
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When they met, he was a brash kid with a magic touch on the guitar, from a newly broken-up band called Buffalo Springfield. She was one of the reigning queens of folk music.</p>
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He saw her at the Whiskey a Go-Go in L.A., on a night when Eric Clapton was playing with his new band, Cream. Stills went up and kissed her hand. She brushed him off.</p>
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It&rsquo;s still summer, so still a season for disaster films. And we&rsquo;re in the middle of watching two such spectacles.<img alt="" src="/files/images/Dennis, Greg ONLINE(1).jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 301px; float: right; margin: 6px;" /></p>
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Let&rsquo;s call the first one &ldquo;Trump: The Sequel.&rdquo;</p>
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The Donald&rsquo;s presidency holds daily plot twists. But if you&rsquo;d paid attention to his past career &mdash; including bankrupt casinos, Trump &ldquo;University&rdquo; and other rip-offs &mdash; well, then you had some idea of what was coming.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.addisonindependent.com/201708gregory-dennis-trump-climate-and-summer-disaster-films" target="_blank">read more</a></p>OpinionThu, 31 Aug 2017 13:40:35 +0000Emma Cotton48277 at http://www.addisonindependent.comGregory Dennis, Between the Lines: When the opioid crisis hits closer to homehttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201707gregory-dennis-between-lines-when-opioid-crisis-hits-closer-home
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It&rsquo;s one thing to hear about the crisis in drug use and the damage it&rsquo;s doing to individuals and families in Vermont.</p>
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It&rsquo;s quite another thing to realize that the state of Vermont thinks you personally might be a drug addict.</p>
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Here&rsquo;s how that happened to me.</p>
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I occasionally take hydrocodone (also known as Vicodin) for back pain. I mean very occasionally. A prescription of 10 pills can last me a year.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.addisonindependent.com/201707gregory-dennis-between-lines-when-opioid-crisis-hits-closer-home" target="_blank">read more</a></p>OpinionDennisThu, 20 Jul 2017 13:47:11 +0000Jessie Raymond47367 at http://www.addisonindependent.comGreg Dennis: Going a month without drinkinghttp://www.addisonindependent.com/201706greg-dennis-going-month-without-drinking
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<span class="s1">By one definition of the word, we are all addicted to something or other. Food. Sex. Exercise followed by Advil. Recreational drugs.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<span class="s1">Alcohol.</span></p>
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<span class="s1">When it comes to booze, I&rsquo;ve never been much of a take-it-or-leave-it kind of guy. I&rsquo;ve pretty much always taken it.</span></p>
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<span class="s1">In moderation. But regularly.</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.addisonindependent.com/201706greg-dennis-going-month-without-drinking" target="_blank">read more</a></p>OpinionThu, 22 Jun 2017 13:16:48 +0000Will DiGravio46780 at http://www.addisonindependent.com